Euro Open GT 2010

pablocomics · 30 Jan 2010, 16:37 (Ref:2622312)

It´s time to open the 2010 season

Colective test
Barcelona (2-3 de march)
Spa-Francorchamps (25-26 de march).

2010 Schedulle
16– 18 -APRIL AUTÓDROMO INTERNACIONAL DO ALGARVE (Portugal)
30 APRIL-1 – 2 MAY NÜRBURGRING GP-SRECKE (Germany)
21 – 23 MAY AUTODROMO E. & D. FERRARI, IMOLA (Italy)
25 – 27 JUNE CIRCUIT DE SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS (Belgium)
9 – 11 JULY CIRCUIT DE NEVERS MAGNY-COURS (France)
18 –19 SEPTEMBER BRANDS HATCH GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT (UK)
1 – 3 OCTOBER AUTODROMO NAZIONALE DI MONZA (Italy)
29 – 31 OCTOBER CIRCUIT DE CATALUNYA (Spain)

Entries
SuperGT

AF Corse - Ferrari 430 GT--- (confirmed)
AF Corse - Ferrari 430 GT--- (confirmed)

Autorlando - Porsche 997--- (probable)
Autorlando - Porsche 997--- (probable)

CRS Racing - Ferrari 430 GT --- (confirmed)
CRS Racing - Ferrari 430 GT --- (confirmed)

IMSA Performance Matmut---Porsche 997 GT3RSR --- (probable)
IMSA Performance Matmut---Porsche 997 GT3RSR --- (probable)
IMSA Performance Matmut---Porsche 997 GT3RSR --- (probable)

Kessel Racing -- Ferrari 430 GT --- Philipp Peter and Michal Broniszewski (confirmed)
Kessel Racing -- Ferrari 430 GT --- Philipp Peter and Michal Broniszewski (possible)

Megadrive --- ferrar 430 GT2 --- (possible)

Sunred--- Sunred SR8 --- (probable)
Sunred--- Sunred SR8 --- (possible)

Trottet Racing --- Ferrari 430 --- (probable)

Villois Racing ---- Aston Martin Vantage GT2 --- (probable)

GTS

Advanced Engineering - Maserati GT Coupé cup --- (possible)

FR Motorsport --- Dodge Viper Coupe GT3 --- (possible)

Kessel Racing -- Ferrari 430 (confirmed)
Kessel Racing -- Ferrari 430 (confirmed)

Red Racing TEAM(Jean-Claude Lagniez) --- Corvette Z06 GT3 --- (possible)

RPM --- Ford GT --- Peter Bamford and Alexander Mortimer (confirmed)

Villois Racing ---- Aston Martin DBRS9 GT3 --- (confirmed)
Villois Racing ---- Aston Martin DBRS9 GT3 --- (confirmed)

Probably there will be any Audi team in GTS

Acid09 · 30 Jan 2010, 17:12 (Ref:2622326)

Wow, some really good teams there.... really great to see how the series has established itself as a very good alternative to the FIA GT who doesn't seem to give much about the GT2s this year anways.

Speed-King · 30 Jan 2010, 17:27 (Ref:2622331)

Ratel could have saved a lot of face, by just giving the GT2 European Championship title to Parejas and focusing on the GT1 World Series.

Dani Filth · 30 Jan 2010, 17:54 (Ref:2622339)

that would've been a good idea ..

Coach Ep · 30 Jan 2010, 18:12 (Ref:2622348)

Quote:

Originally Posted by pablocomics

...
2010 Schedulle
16– 18 -APRIL AUTÓDROMO INTERNACIONAL DO ALGARVE (Portugal)
30 APRIL-1 – 2 MAY NÜRBURGRING GP-SRECKE (Germany)
21 – 23 MAY AUTODROMO E. & D. FERRARI, IMOLA (Italy)
25 – 27 JUNE CIRCUIT DE SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS (Belgium)
9 – 11 JULY CIRCUIT DE NEVERS MAGNY-COURS (France)
18 –19 SEPTEMBER BRANDS HATCH GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT (UK)
1 – 3 OCTOBER AUTODROMO NAZIONALE DI MONZA (Italy)
29 – 31 OCTOBER CIRCUIT DE CATALUNYA (Spain)
...

The Spa 24 Hours at the last weekend of July will fit in nicely for a lot of teams. One of the Euro GT runners could just snatch the crown of Mr. Ratel´s GT2 championship....!

AndrewF31 · 30 Jan 2010, 18:26 (Ref:2622364)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coach Ep

The Spa 24 Hours at the last weekend of July will fit in nicely for a lot of teams. One of the Euro GT runners could just snatch the crown of Mr. Ratel´s GT2 championship....!

That would be quite funny.

Do we know yet if the 24 hours will only be GT2, or will GT3 join in?

When it says "Probably there will be any Audi team in GTS", you mean there will probably be no R8s in the championship?

911 GT1 · 30 Jan 2010, 18:35 (Ref:2622376)

The 24hrs of Spa will be open to GT2, GT3 and GT4 cars.

cmk · 31 Jan 2010, 16:43 (Ref:2622917)

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewF31

When it says "Probably there will be any Audi team in GTS", you mean there will probably be no R8s in the championship?

I think he meant there will be at least one, yet unknown, team fielding an R8 or more.

Go_For_Pole · 31 Jan 2010, 09:43 (Ref:2622660)

I think you can add Edil Cris on the SuperGT list

pablocomics · 31 Jan 2010, 15:13 (Ref:2622855)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Go_For_Pole

I think you can add Edil Cris on the SuperGT list

Yes, true I forgot it

pablocomics · 6 Feb 2010, 01:06 (Ref:2627652)

There will be a change on the fist race of the championship, the season will start on the Circuit Ricardo Tormo at Spain instead Algarve circuit. There was some date conflicts with one national race and finally the circuit was changed.

Colective test
Barcelona (2-3 de march)
Spa-Francorchamps (25-26 de march).

2010 Schedulle
16– 18 -APRIL Circuit Ricardo Tormo de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spain)
30 APRIL-1 – 2 MAY NÜRBURGRING GP-SRECKE (Germany)
21 – 23 MAY AUTODROMO E. & D. FERRARI, IMOLA (Italy)
25 – 27 JUNE CIRCUIT DE SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS (Belgium)
9 – 11 JULY CIRCUIT DE NEVERS MAGNY-COURS (France)
18 –19 SEPTEMBER BRANDS HATCH GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT (UK)
1 – 3 OCTOBER AUTODROMO NAZIONALE DI MONZA (Italy)
29 – 31 OCTOBER CIRCUIT DE CATALUNYA (Spain)

AndrewF31 · 6 Feb 2010, 19:15 (Ref:2627994)

Quote:

Originally Posted by pablocomics

There will be a change on the fist race of the championship, the season will start on the Circuit Ricardo Tormo at Spain instead Algarve circuit. There was some date conflicts with one national race and finally the circuit was changed.

Colective test
Barcelona (2-3 de march)
Spa-Francorchamps (25-26 de march).

2010 Schedulle
16– 18 -APRIL Circuit Ricardo Tormo de la Comunitat Valenciana (Spain)
30 APRIL-1 – 2 MAY NÜRBURGRING GP-SRECKE (Germany)
21 – 23 MAY AUTODROMO E. & D. FERRARI, IMOLA (Italy)
25 – 27 JUNE CIRCUIT DE SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS (Belgium)
9 – 11 JULY CIRCUIT DE NEVERS MAGNY-COURS (France)
18 –19 SEPTEMBER BRANDS HATCH GRAND PRIX CIRCUIT (UK)
1 – 3 OCTOBER AUTODROMO NAZIONALE DI MONZA (Italy)
29 – 31 OCTOBER CIRCUIT DE CATALUNYA (Spain)

oh, come on Algarve. Their stupidity is Valencia's gain.

The only thing I could find was the round of Portuguese Touring Cars, GT and Prototypes, but that is at Estoril. It could be a case that the Portuguese teams could not participate. Oh well. Bad planning.

pablocomics · 6 Feb 2010, 20:07 (Ref:2628024)

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewF31

oh, come on Algarve. Their stupidity is Valencia's gain.

The only thing I could find was the round of Portuguese Touring Cars, GT and Prototypes, but that is at Estoril. It could be a case that the Portuguese teams could not participate. Oh well. Bad planning.

There was some national races at the same day on the Algarve circuit and it was impossible combine it with the the euro F3, the Open GT, the AutoGP, etc....

EuropaBambaataa · 7 Feb 2010, 16:56 (Ref:2628630)

Quote:

Originally Posted by pablocomics

There was some national races at the same day on the Algarve circuit and it was impossible combine it with the the euro F3, the Open GT, the AutoGP, etc....

Actually, they did it on purpose, the Estoril/Algarve dates were switched to have the national races in the same weekend as GT Open. The federation wanted to run the PTCC package in the same weekend to give the national championships more exposure (also, the organising club saves a bundle of money only renting the track once).

AndrewF31 · 6 Feb 2010, 22:27 (Ref:2628123)

Ok, thanks.

There was nothing on the track website and the Portuguese federation only had races at Estoril that weekend.

NaBUru38 · 9 Feb 2010, 22:03 (Ref:2630231)

That Portuguese motor racing federation should be gentler with GT Sport, which is a great oportunity for them to get more international relevance.

EuropaBambaataa · 14 Feb 2010, 22:06 (Ref:2633447)

Quote:

Originally Posted by NaBUru38

That Portuguese motor racing federation should be gentler with GT Sport, which is a great oportunity for them to get more international relevance.

To tell you the truth, the ammount of races wouldn't have been an issue, this was just the official explanation.

Unofficially, they say the Algarve track's administrator is getting a bit greedy.

AndrewF31 · 15 Feb 2010, 00:30 (Ref:2633581)

Quote:

Originally Posted by EuropaBambaataa

To tell you the truth, the ammount of races wouldn't have been an issue, this was just the official explanation.

Unofficially, they say the Algarve track's administrator is getting a bit greedy.

So soon they're having the typical "big headed" attitude. I'm surprised there's a pretty good discount until May 31st for the July LMS round down there.

They aren't going to attract international customers by leeching the international organizers and running just National Touring, GT, Formula, etc. races.

pablocomics · 12 Feb 2010, 12:48 (Ref:2632089)

Autorlando confirmed a 3 cars entry, two in SuperGT and one in GTs

-Porsche 911 GT3 RSR --- Richard Lietz, Gianluca Roda
-Porsche 911 GT3 RSR --- TBA-TBA

-Porsche GT3 R --- TBA-TBA

NaBUru38 · 25 Feb 2010, 15:14 (Ref:2640393)

The opening race was moved to Cheste (Ricardo Tormo), joining the F3 Open and the Spanish GT Championship.

April 16-18 - Cheste (F3 Open / Spanish GT)
April 30-May 2 - Nürburgring
May 21-23 - Imola (Auto GP)
June 25-27 - Spa (Auto GP / F3 Open)
July 9-11 - Magny-Cours (Auto GP / F3 Open)
Sept 18-19 - Brands Hatch (Auto GP / F3 Open)
Oct 1-3 - Monza (Auto GP / F3 Open)
Oct 29-31 - Montmeló (F3 Open)

pablocomics · 10 Mar 2010, 12:02 (Ref:2648849)

More teams confirmed

-Edil Cris will have Raffaele Giammaria and Enrico Toccacelo as drivers on their Ferrari 430. Toccacello get back to competition

-and Brinkmann Motorsport will have one Audi R8 GT3 with Siebrand Dijkstra and Arjan van der Zwaan

pablocomics · 10 Mar 2010, 12:06 (Ref:2648853)

Oh, i forgot it. There was a test on Montmelo past 2 and 3 of march with some OpenGT cars. Taht was the time table

1. Mullen - Niarchos (Ferrari F430 CRS) SGT 1.47.828 (1st ses.)

2. Lietz-Roda (Porsche 997 Autorlando) SGT 1.48.012 (1st ses.)

2. Peter-Broniszewski (Ferrari F430 Kessel) SGT 1.48.719 (1st ses.)

4. Hummel-Goodwin (Ferrari F430 CRS) SGT 1.49.766 (1st ses.)

5. M.Venturi (Lamborghini Black Bull) GTS 1.51.107 (1st ses.)

6. A.Invernizzi (Lamborghini Black Bull) GTS 1.52.991 (1st ses.)

7. J.Diez Villaroel (Ferrari F430 Icer) SGT 1.53.301 (1st ses.)

Robbe · 10 Mar 2010, 12:24 (Ref:2648860)

According to Endurance-Info, AF Corse will enter two cars: Alvaro Barba/tba and Matt Griffin/tba.

Raymond Narac says that IMSA Performance will run a car for him and Patrick Pilet.

JMB is also looking at running their F430 GT2, but nothing confirmed there.

Anyone heard of Trottet Racing or Playteam? This year could be really exciting!

pablocomics · 23 Mar 2010, 15:20 (Ref:2658643)

-The Open GT colective test in Spa (25-26 march) get suspended, the cause is the Blanchimont tunnel collapse.

-AF Corse will enter 3 Ferrari GT2 in the Euro Open, the team won´t use the name Advanced Engineering anymore. The drivers lineup will be
-Álvaro Barba and Pierre Kaffer on the first car
-Matt Griffin and Jack Gerber on the second

and a third car under the name of AT Racing with
-Alexander Talkanitsa and Alexander Talkanitsa Jr.

AndrewF31 · 27 Mar 2010, 10:11 (Ref:2660941)

Don't think anyone has mentioned this yet but MotorsTV will continue to broadcast GT Open in Europe again, this time with 4 live events, including the opener in Valencia, and the last 2 events, apart from their highlight packages.

GT Open site

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